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=List of Schools in the Central PA AATG Region=

**Allentown Central Catholic High School** Allentown Central Catholic High School, Allentown, PA - Allentown Central Catholic High School offers four years of German and uses Deutsch Aktuell. They have a traditional schedule. There is one teacher in the high school.

Athens Area School District
Athens Area School District, Athens, PA - Athens Area School District offers levels I-IV and uses Komm mit! from Holt, Rinehart and Winston. They have a traditional schedule and one teacher. Students have the opportunity to participate in the Friendship Connection as well as the National AATG exam, for which they received recognition for Level III. For more information please click here for a contact.

Antietam High School
Antietam High School, Mt. Penn, PA - Since 1987, Antietam High School has had a partnership program with Kleines Privates Lehrinstitut Derksen, Munich. Information about the exchange and the for credit program can be found at the link on the school Website. Antietam offers German in grade 7 as an exploratory language. All students in grades 8 and 9 elect either German or Spanish. Grades 10 through 12 students are encouraged to continue their language study in programs through level 5. They use Planet from the Hueber Verlag. There is one full time and one part time teacher and Antietam has block scheduling. Students have the opportunity to participate in a language club as well as Delta Epsilon Phi. For more information, please contact Kathy Fegely. She would be happy to assist other teachers with integrating Kinder/Jugendliteratur, Film im Unterricht and Kunst im Unterricht.

Camp Hill School District
Camp Hill School District, Camp Hill, PA - Camp Hill offers Exploratory through Level 5. The text book is geni@l from Langenscheidt (A1, A2 and B1) for levels 1 - 4 and Kaleidoskop for level 5. This is a very small school district. Grades 6 through 12 are in one building, with each grade having 80 - 100 students. We offer 4 languages and all 4 are equally represented. Many students take more than one language. Students have an exploratory program in 7th grade (twice a week for 9 weeks with each language) and choose their first language in 8th grade. Level 5 meets 3 days a week. Occasionally we have students register for the AP exams, even though we don't have an AP class. There is one German teacher at the school and the school has a traditional schedule. Camp Hill has a GAPP exchange with a school in Moosburg, Bayern (alternating with Exeter). Students who are high achievers are invited to participate in the Foreign Language Honor Society. Some technologies employed include various web 2.0 tools, Polyvision Boards, easiteach, i-movie, garageband, and creating podcasts and movies. Please visit Frau Storey's Website. For more information, please contact Brigitte Storey.

Catasauqua Area School District
Catasauqua Area School District, Northampton, PA - Catasauqua Area School District offeres Exploratory to level 4. They are currently transitioning from Deutsch Aktuell to Komm mit!, they have a traditional schedule and one teacher. Levels German 3 & 4 are honors classes. Students have the opportunity to participate in the German Club. For more information, please contact Mary Anne Haney

Central Catholic High School
Central Catholic High School, Reading, PA - Central Catholic High School offers levels 1, 2, 3, 4 and uses textbooks by EMC. They have a traditional schedule and offer dual credit in language. There is one teacher in the distict. They currently have a Korean and Chinese exchange. For more information please contact the German Teacher.

Central Mountain High School
Central Mountain High School, Mill Hall, PA - Central Mountain High School is one of two high schools that serve the Keystone Central School District. We currently offer German 1 - 4 and AP at the high school. At our middle school, we offer Exploratory German and Level 1. We have an active partnership with the Burghardt Gymnasium in Buchen (Odenwald), Germany. We also have a local chapter of Delta Epsilon Phi. There are one and a half German teachers that serve the district; with one full time at the high school and one part time at the middle school. For more information please email: dmadenford@kcsd.us

Central York School District
Central York School District, York, PA - Central York School District has a Block schedule and offers AP informally. There are 3 teachers in the district. Central York has had an exchange with the Twin City of Leinfelden-Echterdingen near Stuttgart since 1980. Students have the opportunity to be inducted in the German Honors Society. Teachers at Central York employ TPRS strategies (120 hours of instruction and 4 years experience) and use various modes of technology to enhance instruction including cell phones; Live webcasting of instruction and archiving; Moodle (full use including audio recording); Digital Vocabulary management and assessment; German in a 1-to-1 environment. For more information please contact Nathan Hammond and visit his website.

Cornwall-Lebanon School District
Cornwall-Lebanon School District, Lebanon, PA - Cornwall-Lebanon School District uses Deutsch Aktuell and has a traditional schedule. There is one full time teacher and one part time teacher in the district. Students have the opportunity to participate in the German Club.

Cumberland Valley School District
Cumberland Valley School District, Mechanicsburg, PA - Cumberland Valley School District offers German I-IV and uses Deutsch Aktuell. They will be offering AP starting this school year and an IB program in the 2011-12 school year. They have traditional schedule. There are 4 teachers in the District. Students have the opportunity to use a Language Lab for Rosetta Stone and be inducted in the Foreign Language Honors Society. The District does offer an elementary program as well. For more information please contact Herr Noll and visit his teacher site.

Ephrata Area School District
Ephrata Area School District, Ephrata, PA - Ephrata usesDeutsch Aktuell, has a traditional schedule and 3 teachers. They will begin AP starting in 2011. Ephrata has a GAPP exchange with Eberbach for 21 years. Students have the opportunity to be inducted into the German & Spanish NHS. Chinese is offered via distance learning. Teachers also use Moodle. For more information please contact Bonnie Strohl or Jennifer Hesser.

Exeter Township High School
Exeter Township High School, Reading, PA - Exeter Township is currently phasing in Deutsch Aktuell and offers Levels III and IV Honors. They (unfortunately) have a block schedule. There is also an AP Level 5 course offered. Exeter has an exchange with the Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Gymnasium, Moosburg, Bavaria circa 22 years (every other year). There are 4 teachers in the district, some who are multi-certified. Students have the opportunity to participate in the German Club/Kaffeestunde. For more information, please click here for a contact.

**Hempfield High School**
Hempfield High School, Landisville, PA - We currently offer German I through V with a German VI film course in the works. Students have the opportunity to take the AP exam if they would like. We have just begun using Deutsch Aktuell for levels I and II, but will continue to use Komm mit! for level III. We have a GAPP program since 1990, offer the AATG exam every year, and used to have a German Club (its demise is due to the block schedule). We have a new digital language lab and a Distance Learning Lab as well. We have an Honors Society since 2003, although it is not the AATG one - our school created its own society called. SAEFL (Society for Academic Excellence in a Foreign Language). There are two and a half German teachers at the High School and one German teacher who goes between both middle schools. We are on an 80 minute block schedule and currently offer German I and an exploratory program at our two middle schools.

Lower Dauphin School District
Lower Dauphin School District, Hummelstown, PA - Lower Dauphin School District offers Exploratory to AP courses and uses Komm Mit! They have a traditional schedule and two teachers. Students have the opportunity to participate in cultural food days every marking period at the middle school level. Additionally, they can take Spanish/French after school once a week at some elementary schools. For more information, please contact Geniene Ronald.

Manheim Township High School
http://www.mtwp.net - Lancaster, PA - Manheim Township offers German levels 1, 2, 3, International Baccalaureate 1 & 2, and AP German. Students have the option of taking German 1 at the middle school over the course of seventh and eighth grades. Classes are offered on a traditional schedule with five 50-minute classes per week. The program currently uses Deutsch Aktuell 1 & 2 for levels one through three. There is one full-time German teacher who runs a program of approximately 100 students. Upper level courses (IB and AP) are grouped into one class of students in their fourth and fifth years of study. For more information, please contact (hollerda@mtwp.net)

Manheim Central High School
Manheim Central School District, Manheim, PA - currently offers German I-IV, with the possibility of German V, dependent upon enrollment numbers. There is one, almost full-time German teacher, who also teaches Spanish, and serves the entire district. There is currently no language program at the middle school. We run a yearly private exchange with Sickingen Gymnasium in Landstuhl, Germany. We are lucky to utilize a mobile digital language lab and a laptop cart, consisting of 31 laptops, for our small department of 4. We offer the National German exam yearly. A local chapter of Delta Epsilon Phi was begun at the high school in 2007. Frau Campbell regularly uses Moodle, Wikispaces, ning, blog, glogster, letterpop, textmarks. Check out Frau Campbell’s German blog and website or contact Frau Campbell for more information.

Northampton Area School District
Northampton Area School District : We have a strong German program with three full-time teachers in the high school and one in the middle school. We offer Exploratory in the middle school and German I-IV including an Honors II, III and IV. We hope to start German I in 8th grade soon so we can offer German V AP. We have had a GAPP Program every two years since 1996 with Freiherr-vom Stein Europaschule in Gladenbach, Hessen. We also have an active German Club. We implemented TPRS this year after attending the TPRS Workshop in Sweet Briar, VA last summer and the kids and the teachers are loving it!

Penn Manor High School
Penn Manor High School, Millersville, PA - More information to come. Please visit Frau Smith´s teacher page and her student courses page for more information!

Perkiomen Valley
Perkiomen Valley High School, Collegeville, PA - Perkiomen Valley offers levels 1-5 and AP. They use Deutsch Aktuell and Kaleidoskop and have a traditional schedule. There are 4 teachers in the district. They have an exchange with Euskirchen Gymnasium for 4 years. Students have the opportunity to participate in the German Club and Sommerfest. Recently, the district has begun a quarterly 8 week German club which circulates among the elementary schools in the district, which helps compete with the built-in Spanish class offered during the school day. Topics for the club are arts and crafts related to the season, basic German (numbers, phrases, food, months, days of the week, etc.), geography, etc. Activities include singing songs, playing games and snacks. For more information please contact Bettie Wright.

Southeastern School District
Southeastern School District, Fawn Grove, PA - Southeastern employs three full time German teachers. One teaches 7th Grade Exploratory German and 8th Grade German I at the Middle School and two teach German I-V at Kennard Dale High School. Level IV and V German students participate in the yearly International Culture Day Competition at Lebanon Valley College. German students are also involved in Foreign Language Club at the high school and the school offers a bi-annual trip to Germany for students. The foreign language teachers host various activities for National Foreign Language Month, such as a poster contest, movie night, culture day, and trivia contests. For more information, please contact Ann Kern.

State College Area School District
[|State College Area School District], State College, PA - currently has 5.6 full time German teachers. Other languages offered at our large high school are Spanish, French, Latin and Arabic. Three of the German teachers are at the high school and the other 2.6 positions are at two middle schools. Students take exploratory German during 6th grade. They then take German every other day during grade 7 and continue with every other day instruction during 8th grade; or they take daily instruction in 8th grade to obtain credit for German 1. At the high school we follow a traditional schedule and offer German 1 – 5(AP). We use the //Komm Mit// series in levels 1-4 and Langenscheidt’s //Aspekte// in AP/level 5. This year (2013/14) we have 257 students enrolled in German at the high school. We have an active German club and a chapter of Delta Epsilon Phi. One of the strengths of the German program is a yearly school-to-school exchange with a Gymnasium in Hannover, Germany. This exchange has been going on since 1992. For more information please contact Eric Smith.

Warwick High School
Warwick High School, Lititz, PA - Warwick offers levels 1-5 and uses Komm Mit! They have a traditional schedule and have two plus German teachers. Students have the opportunity to go to Germany with König-Karlmann Gymnasium, Altötting, Bavaria. They have exchanged students every other year since 1989. Students are also invited into the Delta Epsilon Phi National German Honor Society, Berlin Airlift Memorial Fund Scholarship to send one or more students to Germany every other year, Additionally, there are Adult Ed Pennsylvania German and German for travel classes. At Warwick, we have numerous exchange students. There is usually one from Germany here on a full year exchange. Recently my students have been interested in full year exchanges in Germany. I have one sophomore there this year and one who will go next year. Our local AFS club has a strong membership and offers full scholarships for students who want to travel. Our G.A.P.P. exchange students are awarded 1/2 credit for their work in Germany, which makes our exchange a truly academic experience. For more information, please contact David Hoffman. He is also willing to help with Frakturschrift questions.